Rescued violins bring back Holocaust memories

AFP — Tucking the violin beneath his chin, the instrument’s wood glistening under the packed auditorium’s spotlights, Guy Braunstein’s hand trembled from the weight of history. “I have done thousands of concerts, but I have never been as emotional and trembled the way I did when I took that violin

Wisconsin Researcher Talks About Major Holocaust Discovery

An international research team of geoscientists and geographers recently made a remarkable find in Lithuania. It’s a 100-foot tunnel, dug mostly by hand at night by Jewish prisoners who were anticipating execution during the Holocaust 72 years ago. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire geography professor Harry Jol and four of his

Amsterdam rejects restitution, settles with survivors for $11M

JTA – The City of Amsterdam approved an $11 million payment to Jewish causes as compensation for money it wrongfully collected from individual Holocaust survivors. Four of the five factions represented at city hall last week voted in favor of transferring the funds to a nonprofit that would distribute the

Beyond Anne Frank: Dutch tell their full Holocaust story

AMSTERDAM — Anne Frank is only part of the story. The diary of the young Jewish girl who came of age hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam has long been the dominant narrative of the Netherlands’ experience during World War II. Hers is a story of inspiration and resistance that

Heinrich Himmler’s Lost Diaries Reveal Everyday Horrors of the Holocaust

Extracts from Heinrich Himmler‘s newly-discovered diaries have revealed the grisly everyday routine of the mastermind of the Holocaust in the depths of World War 2. The diaries were thought to have been lost after they were seized by the Red Army, The London Timesreports. They document the horrific activities of

German University’s course claims Israel harvests Palestinian organs

  BERLIN – An academic seminar at a German university claims Israel’s military harvests organs from Palestinians and the Jewish state is responsible for a genocide. “Our sons were robbed of their organs,” was the title of a part of the seminar’s course material, Rebecca Seidler, an academic who blew

El Paso Holocaust Museum youth education program

Children only above sixth grade should attend the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center because they will understand the Holocaust better than youngsters, the Holocaust education director said.“The gallery here is geared toward sixth graders and above,” Education Director Jamie Flores said. “So below that, we believe the maturity

Doing justice to her father’s dream

She was born in a refugee camp in Stuttgart, just over two hours from Nuremberg, where Nazi war criminals were being brought to justice. And now, 70 years later, Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada has come back to the place where her father began his own

Nazi Germany’s Jewish champion: the mystery of Helene Mayer endures

The photograph is at once both beautiful and revolting. Snapped in the fading sun of an August afternoon during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, this picture is of a German woman standing regal on the medal stand, dressed in white, her posture perfect, her face locked in the stoic gaze

San Diego Participants Reflect on this Year’s March of the Living

In honor of this year’s Yom Hashoah, another group of young San Diegans joined counterparts from across the world on the March of the Living. The San Diego Jewish Journal online published reflections from two local participants. This trip is historically moving, and gives young people a chance to really understand